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the exhibit a in this category has been raytheon.hey won sommajor radar contracts last year as a result of an investment rate it's hard to see people coming back on r&d. you're seeing people talklk more openly with their shareholders. they are willing to invest and put money to work. >> for raytheon, that was a massive payout. and obviously the air force, big wins for them. there are still those investors and companies who say there isn't that much visibility out there about the future. you are paid to look at visibility. how much visibility is there out there about the future? >> this is the only sector i know wre the customer publishes a five-year spending plan. we can disagree with how that plan will actually play out. there has been analysis done o on that. the claims that there's a lot of uncertainty and companies don't know what to do, compared to a lot of other sectors, i i think ople would b be surprised. there is a lot of visibility and the department of defense does not make abrupt 90 degree turns when it comes to the broad

yesterday, i interviewed one of the top guys from raytheon on cyber security. a lot of people, we hear a lot becoming a bilg big business opportunity, according to raytheon, web site, incidents have quadrupleed, and cost one trillion dollars in losses. businesses, large, small, in between are not taking this as serious as they could. incidents are up large and small businesses look how big they change, and look at budgets, they barely move. these are fractional increases. remember j.p. morgan had that big cyberattack. now, they will double the security budget. here is problem. look at top 25 worse passwords of 2014. if they look familiar let me know. others, that were interesting. what is up with some of these dragon and mustang. then, number 25. trust no one. all right, our next real deal, hitha is grinning. >> how did you know? charles: the corporate america take cyber security seriously? >> corporation don't have a choice. problem is that bad guys are gaining their intelligence quicker than corporation can keep up, i get annoyed as updating my operating syst

zero day liabilities for the government, but government, but we also have the defense industry, raytheon and others. they have gotten into the digital realm and have teams that are also looking for vulnerabilities and designing digital weapons. >> host: is this a case where contractors would use hackers? >> guest: the contractors are hackers. contract firms work for the nsa and design weapons on a full-time basis. >> host: what would an all-digital war look like? >> guest: of a lot of people have posited scenarios about this. i don't know that we will see one. i don't think it will accomplish everything you need. it need. it is more something to use as an adjunct to conventional warfare to get that systems you normally cannot get at, information you normally cannot get at. someone was describing me -- describing to me, in world war ii despite all the carpet bombing that occurred, you still needed troops on the ground. the ground. the same thing is true with digital warfare. ultimately you are going to need boots on the ground and to seize territory. i am not not sure we will ever see hol

. >> a tale of two defense contractors, raytheon is lower after posting 2015 sales below forecast as orders fell. the stock is done 6%. a different story here for northrop they gave full year profit forecasts beating wall street estimates up by.5%. back to you. >> thank you very much. the ruble is crumbling, trading at 69 against the dollar, near the historic lows of december 20 14. look at rsx, the etf that tracks publicly traded russian companies way down this year. over the past year down 41 percent. cnbc is getting a major exclusive with russia's finance minister live in moscow. hi, jeff. >> reporter: hi, tyler. well, the ruble's going to have an interesting start to the week here. the russian finance minister says a number of things that could be pertinent to the way the currency trades. we have a central bank meeting tomorrow. interest rates at 17% here and they will lift it to defend the russian currency. he has suggested that these rates are too high and no longer appropriate given the decline in volatility. he thinks we've seen around the currency. he added, though at the ba

and the ceos of the major defense contractors, the boeing, lockheed mart tons, raytheons north group grummans, are called to a meeting at the pentagon. they figure if they have been called here on short notice and seeing they're competitors in one room, this can't be good news. they're ushered into a room called a skiff sensitive compartmented information facility. if you're a fan of homeland, the skip is the thing where you have to drop your cell phone outside before you go in this sound proof room that is actually impermeable to eavesdropping. the place you only receive the most secretive secrets. executives are given what is called a threat briefing. a number of military officials describe to them how hackers believed to be in china, are accessing computer systems that contain some of the most classified information in the military, specifically things like plans for the joint strike fighter, the f-35 which is to be our next generation military aircraft, as well as a number of other assorted classified military programs have all been overrun by cyberspies. that seems scary to thes

lockheed martin general dynamic dynamics, raytheon up 1.5% to 3%. back to you. >>> to the bond market now where yields on the ten-year are above 2% once again. lots of volatility. rick santelli, tell us what's going on. >> reporter: well, i'll tell you what to say above 2% and make that a reference to wow, yields are moving up is still something that's hard to get used to. and maybe by looking at a two-year chart of tens you'll figure out why. yes, yields are up a bit. yes, yesterday we broke the streak of seven down-yield sessions in a row, but we're still on the low side as you can see on the chart. maybe the more appropriate place to be looking with treasuries after comments by charles evans last night is on the yield curve. and remember if you think central bankers are going to stick around longer especially the u.s. then the flattening curve has to be less flat and indeed that's the case. look at 24-hour charts of tens minus twos and then the ever-popular fives versus 30s. both have steepened a bit. it's probably liquidation of flattener flatte

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